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Ocean virus identified in human blood samples

...ntists found that 15 percent of the dairy and beef cattle in eight western states had antibodies to Vesiviru... percent. It concluded that Vesivirus infection in cattle is widespread, and in various studies has been "associated" ?identified to be statistically relevant...

CU, USDA team to curb two invasive, poisonous vines

...sons, which likely limit natural enemies. Deer and cattle do not eat them. Researchers also are finding that pale swallow-wort may be replacing milkweeds in open fields in New York state and across the Northeast coast, within the migratory range of monarch butterflies. The monarchs lay their eggs on milkwee...

Successful cell engineering may lead to mad cow prevention, say researchers

...ossibility of introducing the same technology into cattle to prevent numerous diseases. "The exciting part is that we may be able to use this technology to prevent other diseases from ever starting," Westhusin explains. "We were able to knock down the genes that are involved with diseases in goats....

The Amazon in 2050: Implementing the law could save a million square kilometers of rainforest

...c models that determine the trajectory of logging, cattle ranching, and soybean farming are linked with ecol...nd the environmental certification of the region's cattle ranchers and soy farmers. Based in Belém, Brazil, he leads the Center's Amazon program. In 1995, he ...

Genomics-based vaccine could prevent deadly cattle disease

...ing poverty in Africa. Killing more than a million cattle and costing some $200 million annually, this tick-...rasite, launching the disease that typically kills cattle within a month. In July, 2005, TIGR led a research team that published T. parva 's genome sequence,...

Report shows deforestation threatens Brazil's Pantanal

...ative vegetation. They concluded that agriculture, cattle grazing and coal mining are the major threats to the Paraguay River Basin, a significant hydrographical drainage of the South American continent. Titled "Estimated Loss of Natural Area in the High Paraguay River Basin and the Brazilian Pantanal," th...

Value of services performed by insects tops $57 billion in US

...es if dung beetles did not clean nearby plants and cattle environments, which would deter cattle from eating the plants and attract more flies and parasites that would have to be controlled. They a...

DOE JGI finishes 100th microbial genome

...fresh water mud sample, also lives in the rumen of cattle where cellulose and other polysaccharides are digested. "We are delighted that the DOE JGI's 100th genome is a microorganism that one of our UMBI faculty members has been studying to evaluate its potential for bioremediation and as an alternative e...

Corn waste potentially more than ethanol

After the corn harvest, whether for cattle feed or corn on the cob, farmers usually leave the stalks and stems in the field, but now, a team of Penn State researchers think corn stover can be used not only to manufacture ethanol, but to generate electricity directly. "People are looking at u...

Completed genome set to transform the cow

...ntists to improve health and disease management of cattle and enhance the nutritional value of beef and dair...e could potentially achieve as much improvement in cattle breeding and production in 50 years as we have over the last 8000 years of traditional farming." ...

Agriculture and tropical conservation: rethinking old ideas

... and cut all the trees down and turn the land into cattle pastures. So the standard litany doesn't ring true to them." Vandermeer and Perfecto reviewed studies of biodiversity in the Atlantic coast rainforest of Brazil, a region that is unusual in having areas of tremendous biological variety adjacent to...

Vampire bats recognise their prey's breathing

...dings of different humans breathing with different cattle blood dispensers, providing food rewards. They were then played short clips of people breathing and had to associate them with the correct individual by going to the correct dispenser. Four human participants were asked to associate the same short cl...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

...sity of Illinois scholar writes. Eating meat from cattle infected with bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or... spread to Europe and Asia before the slaughter of cattle and better testing helped curb the outbreak. The Bush administration's approach to safeguarding the...

Prion find points way to test for human 'mad cow' disease

...rders as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in cattle and vCJD in humans--in the blood of the hamsters i...working with natural samples, both from humans and cattle but mostly from humans," he said. With an eye toward making a human test commercially available, Sot...

Fire ants: Their true story told by the scientist who loves them

... the pastures of Southwood Plantation ?a corporate cattle farm just east of Tallahassee ?to area strip malls. The parking lot behind a local grocery store is a particular favorite. "Fire ants specialize in exploiting disturbed habitat, and they've thrived in part because humans have done a lot of disturbin...

Cougar predation key to ecosystem health

...s such as deer or elk ?or domestic grazers such as cattle or sheep ?affect native biodiversity. ...

Fragmentation rapidly erodes Amazonian biodiversity

...pidly felled and fragmented for timber operations, cattle ranches and industrial soy farms. The team, led by William Laurance of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama, has been studying the fates of nearly 32,000 Amazonian trees since 1980. The most striking finding, say the authors, is...

New evidence of early horse domestication

... people of the same region adopted shepherding and cattle raising, said Olsen. That created a more nomadic culture, since sheep and cattle are not well suited for sub-zero climates and therefore needed to be taken south in winter. The trad...

New dwarf buffalo discovered by chance in the Philippines

... well-supported example of "island dwarfing" among cattle and their relatives. "Natural selection can pro...several levels Water buffalo are members of the cattle family and are placed in the genus Bubalus, which includes four living species. Two species, Bubalu...

British cattle give TB to badgers, finds UC Davis expert

...of killing wild badgers to prevent tuberculosis in cattle is unlikely to succeed, according to a newstudy le... years over the merits of culling badgers to fight cattle tuberculosis, a disease which can occasionally be transmitted to people. Farming ministers are curre...

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